Zaparde: Brian Chesky's Pixel-Level Micromanagement Set Airbnb's Product Quality Bar
Rujul Zaparde · Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Apr 24, 2024 · at 40:19
Rujul Zaparde, co-founder and CEO of Zip, worked as a product manager at Airbnb under CEO Brian Chesky. He reflects on how Chesky's detailed feedback during mobile app design reviews shaped company culture.
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“Brian Chesky you know, CEO of Airbnb, just how the level of attention to detail when it comes to the Airbnb product I mean, I, you know, you remember, remember design reviews where to his credit, he would be able to detect that, you know, some of the spacing is off or, right? Like just on our mobile app or like, just like really, really focus on detail. And what that does is of course, do those extra, you know, I don't know, 10 pixels of white space, In, in of themselves matter? No, but they matter a ton in terms of what that says to the company and what, you know, and where the bar is for quality of the product.”
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